Just two months into her year-long reign as Miss America 2015, 23-year-old Kira Kazantsev is already exhausted.

“There have been times when I wanted to just crawl into a hole and never talk to anyone again,” Kazantsev told us at a private luncheon for 20 held in her honor Monday at Cafe Milano. “But you can’t do that. You’re Miss America.” Talking, and looking impeccable while doing it, is part of the job.